How a Dying Woman Rewrote Her Epilogue

Elodie lowered her gaze in thought for a moment. "You don't need to worry. I'll find

a way to handle this. There are several people assisting me at work, and they'll all be questioned as well. Maybe something just went wrong somewhere along the line."

"Let's wait and see," Charlie said. "I'll reach out to Klein again and see if there's anything to clarify. Don't be afraid." He didn't know the details, but he trusted that Elodie wouldn't make a mistake.

Elodie nodded in agreement.

There were quite a few people on the team.

But the person who handled most of the important tasks with her was Lily Lockwood.

Everything Lily submitted, Elodie reviewed first.

Which meant the problem had to have occurred right before submission.

As for Lily, she was clearly less of a suspect. She had nothing to gain by tampering with the data, and Elodie had a personal relationship with Jarrod—a marriage in name, if not in spirit.

Besides, Elodie didn't believe Lily bore her any deep grudge that would make her risk everything to frame her.

After all, if Lily got caught, she'd lose all the hard-won opportunities she'd fought for.

When the call ended, Alexander finally turned to her. "So, what's your take on all this?"

At the moment, with Elodie under investigation, her work with Project 719 would be put on hold. She'd have to step away from the facility to ensure an impartial review of the situation.

Once she was suspended and off-site, she wouldn't have a chance to prove her innocence. She'd be left sitting on her hands, just waiting.

lot of ideas, but nothing I can be sure of yet." Alexander considered this. "You

know

how things went between her and Jarrod's team.

strict; mistakes like this almost never slipped through. By all reasonable analysis, if there was a variable, it

things between Elodie

of the child, Alexander thought. A man

from Esmeralda Mercer that Jarrod and Elodie had a huge fight over this, and

Jarrod cared

he blamed Elodie

Jarrod could he really not hold a grudge against

have sounded a

endured over the years, Alexander couldn't

head almost immediately. "No. All the data I tested

tampering happened right before submission, from

She understood Jarrod.

did hate her, he wouldn't stoop so

direct brutal, even-but, net

need to go

be that

it was sabotage,

handling it better than most

he

for now, there wasn't much else to analyze. They'd have to go home

The car started up.

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